Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 2 | If people stopped to look at the borders alongside the house he would be perfectly charming ; if they did n't he would n't bother them . |
| 3 | Beryl chatted with one or two of the bystanders then lingered to look at the cards on the wreaths and this annoyed Francis . |
| 4 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 5 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 6 | Morse turned to look at the waters once more before he left , then sat silently in the passenger-seat of the police car as Lewis had a final word with Sergeant Dixon . |
| 7 | Behind him a car passed and he turned to look at the occupants . |
| 8 | The Doctor and Lacuna turned to look at the screens . |
| 9 | He turned to look at the trees , but they were bare . |
| 10 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 11 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 12 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 13 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 14 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |
| 15 | The squabbling became more bitter , and the adults began to snap at the children . |
| 16 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 17 | Recovering , Emmie seized the thin old hearthrug and began to beat at the flames . |
| 18 | The National Materials Handling Centre , with its interest in sustaining national expertise and development in warehouse design , decided to look at the factors restricting advances in the building of automatic warehouses in the United Kingdom and one which emerged and was considered to be worthy of further enquiry was the attention being paid to the problems of fire in high-bay warehouses . |
| 19 | If they chose to quarrel at the tops of their voices , that was their business . |
| 20 | He went to look at the ricks again . |
| 21 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 22 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 23 | We were talking earlier , and I understand you liked to ride at the weekends , and you 're often competing on your horse , er , ha , if you were to have a fall , and erm , you had a back injury , or erm , you sustained an injury that would you keep you from work for a substantial amount of time , er , how would you feel , would you be able to pay your premiums ? |
| 24 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 25 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |
| 26 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 27 | She had to look at the facts and analyse them , then draw the right conclusions . |
| 28 | Willie continued to gaze at the materials . |
| 29 | In drawing up its outline plan , the WJEC was not content solely with commenting separately on the proposals made by its constituent local authorities but attempted to look at the needs of Wales as a whole , a procedure that was not always followed by the English RACs in respect of their regions . |
| 30 | ‘ I wanted to look at the tapestries , Sergeant . |